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Food Security & Agriculture

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The escalating crisis of soaring food prices and food insecurity is the result of a development model based on large-scale, export-orientated agriculture tied to international competition, self interest and stock market speculation. With 850 million people going hungry each day despite a huge surplus of food production, a reorientation towards local self-sufficiency founded upon the concept of ‘food sovereignty’ is urgently required.

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Seed Aid, Agribusiness and the Food Crisis

The current food crisis is not a problem of production as we have been told, but a result of neo-liberal trade policies, which now serve as a catalyst to send seeds and fertilisers to food-crisis-striken countries in the South. By GRAIN

 
GM Sorghum Test Approved

As Africa grapples with the question of food insecurity, biotechnology buffs seem to have an answer: genetically modified crops that could feed a continent vulnerable to famine and food deficits. But environmentalists warn of new dangers. Reported by Busani Bafana.

 
The Financial Crisis and the Food Crisis: Two Sides of the Same Coin

With intertwined food and financial systems, we stand to face a hungry planet and the threat of "financial Armageddon." However, rather than failed free-market policies, we can stabilize the planet by investing in local economies argues Annie Shattuck.

 
Food and Markets: A Crisis of Faith

Unlike the crisis of 1970s stagflation that signalled the end for the Keynesian social-democratic model, the food crisis of 2008 could be marked down in history for setting in motion an opposite trend, writes Adam W. Parsons.

 
Poison in Your Stomach: Genetically Modified Brinjal (Egg Plants or Aubergines)

The first genetically modified food crop – Bt Brinjal – will soon be served up across India, carrying a toxin that is a thousand times more potent than what is used to kill insects. Spine chilling, isn’t it? By Devinder Sharma.

 
Why Prince Charles is Right about Agribusiness

It's easy to scoff at the Prince's latest 'green' intervention, but if you really look at what he's saying, it's completely cogent, argues John Vidal.

 
Feeling the Heat of Food Security

Reforming the economics of food production and supply would be beneficial for a number of environmental and social problems, and a key issue is to understand the energy involved in putting food on your plate, argues Peter Baker.

 
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